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Well, I was looking forward to this and from what I've seen, I quite like the format for the show.

It's a shame we don't get to see a little bit of what these director's are capable of. They were shortlisted based on the strength of their submissions and it would have been interesting to see where they're coming from.

Making the first task pitching a story is absolutely perfect. It's a deceptively simple thing but the fact remains that the story lives or dies based on the pitch. If you don't make a good pitch, you're not going to get anything made.

I would have liked to see a more even mixture of good and bad pitches. We only saw a couple of good pitches but at least we can see how horribly wrong a pitch can go.

I liked the five different loglines they had. Despite some of the loglines being more suited for a comedy or drama, they could still be adapted any way a storyteller wants.

Three-man crew. Two characters. Three locations. One night to write a script. 24 hours to film. 24 to edit a 2-and-a-half minute short. It might be extremely tight but it's a very good test to see who can perform under pressure in all areas of filmmaking.

I feel for some of them. Getting stuck with people you don't mesh with might be a problem but they have to do their best to work through it. Unlike AI, it's going to be tough to separate the good from bad within individual teams. All three members of each team are probably going to rise or fall based on their collective effort.

So we're going to get our finalists next episode. After making a short film in teams, I wonder what the third assignment is going to be.

Brett Ratner might not be the best director ever but he does have a commercial sensibility, like Garry Marshall and Carrie Fisher. I think as judges, they should cover each other well.

The show looks like it's off to a good start. Production-wise, it's pretty basic. But it serves the format of the show. Not much more they can do to glitz up the process. It's not AI.

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The winner certainly isn't going to be making a summer blockbuster epic with $1,000,000.

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They won't. That's the development deal they're getting. They come up with story ideas and develop them into viable scripts. Budget for filming is a separate issue.